Injury Prevention Tips
This section of the website offers some general information about common injuries and tips for home management, as well as helpful hints for pain management and injury prevention.
Remember, your healthcare provider is the best source for information regarding your child's injury. If you have specific questions or concerns about your child's injury or treatment, please make sure to talk with your healthcare provider. If any information in this website is different from what your healthcare provider recommends, follow your healthcare provider's advice.
Full recovery goes beyond physical healing - learn more about your child's emotional recovery after an injury, and how you can help.
Injury Prevention Tips
Each year, one in every four children is treated by a doctor because of an injury such as a fall from a bicycle or an animal bite. Some of these injuries are minor, but many of them are very serious.
You can’t always stop your children from getting bumps and bruises but you can reduce the chances that they’ll be seriously injured by taking safety precautions such as always buckling up in motor vehicles.
Click here to find more safety tips on topics such as child passenger safety, bicycle safety, dog bites, falls, pedestrian safety, fire safety, water safety and more.
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Full recovery goes beyond physical healing - learn more about your child's emotional recovery after an injury, and how you can help.